Single-step propagators for calculation of time evolution in quantum systems with arbitrary interactions

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2016.02.006MaRDI QIDQ339393zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ivan Gonoskov, Mattias Marklund

Publication date 10 November 2016

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6207

zbMATH Keywords

quantum physicssingle-step propagatorswave function evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-08) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: We propose and develop a general method of numerical calculation of the wave function time evolution in a quantum system which is described by Hamiltonian of an arbitrary dimensionality and with arbitrary interactions. For this, we obtain a general n-order single-step propagator, which could be used for the numerical solving of the problem with any prescribed accuracy. We demonstrate an applicability of the proposed approach by considering a propagation of an electron in focused electromagnetic field with vortex electric field component.

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